Allan Sandage famous quotes

It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by science. It is only through the supernatural that I can understand the mystery of existence.
-- Allan Sandage

#World #Mystery #Complicated

I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing.
-- Allan Sandage

#Order #Miracle #Atheism

The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with all its order in each of its organisms is simply too well put together. Each part of a living thing depends on all its other parts to function. How does each part know? How is each part specified at conception? The more one learns of biochemistry the more unbelievable it becomes unless there is some type of organizing principle-an architect.
-- Allan Sandage

#Order #Together #Principles

We can't understand the universe in any clear way without the supernatural.
-- Allan Sandage

#Way #Clear #Universe

All humans are brothers. We came from the same supernova
-- Allan Sandage

#Brother #Humans #Supernova

Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.
-- Allan Sandage

#Self #Progress #Process

God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.

And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.

I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.

Dance on the edge of mystery.

The past is history; The future is a mystery; This moment is a gift; That is why this moment is called the present; Enjoy it.

What we fear is what we do not know. When something is cloaked by the darkness of uncertainty, it's a mystery. Allowing light to penetrate that darkness makes everything clear.

NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world.